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The Mushroom Tapes

By: Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper, Sarah Krasnostein
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The Mushroom Tapes brings together three renowned writers of true crime: Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein.

For this extraordinary book, the lone wolves became a team. Garner, Hooper and Krasnostein tracked Erin Patterson’s preliminary hearings and trial, joined the media scrum at the Latrobe Valley Law Courts, slept over in Morwell and spent countless hours in fervent discussion of the case and the themes it raises: love, hate, jealousy, revenge, marriage, money, mycology and murder.

The Mushroom Tapes is a true crime book like no other, an unputdownable record of the writers’ private conversations about their impressions from inside the courtroom. They explore the gap between the certainties of the law and the messiness of reality, their own ambivalence about the true crime genre, and all that remains unknowable about Erin Patterson.

If you read one book about how Erin Patterson was convicted of triple murder make it The Mushroom Tapes.

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I didn’t love it, I didn’t hate it. I definitely bought it for Helen and she never disappoints.
May we all never eat Beef Wellington again.

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Just when you thought you'd heard the whole story... brilliantly written and narrated with deep insights that are gripping and insightful. I'm so glad I listened to this. love the narration by all 3 authors.

Just brilliant!

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Having the three women’s views of the same trial was incredible. I feel I have a much better understanding of the trial & outcome from listening to this book. Thanks ladies.

An important inside view of The Mushroom Trial

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It was sometimes a bit long winded. but overall quite interesting an eye opening.

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What I loved most about this audio book was the different perspectives from women who are as perplexed as most of us as to who is Erin Patterson.
I followed the case on various podcasts and remember discussing it with friends. My girlfriends pondered similar scenarios about marriage, troubled families and potential frustrations unique to situations and women.
Helen, Chloe and Sarah's experiences in the living court room were expressed with honesty and as individuals with at times very different perspectives.

An insightful perspective

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